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Transdisciplinary Action Research in Landscape Architecture and Planning: Prospects and Challenges

Transdisciplinary Action Research in Landscape Architecture and Planning: Prospects and Challenges Foreword Transdisciplinary Action Research in Landscape Architecture and Planning Prospects and Challenges Daniel Stokols fundamental goal of scholarship in the fi eld of reconciling local plural design projects with the exigen- A landscape architecture is to enhance the practice cies of the regional and global contexts in which they are of designing, planning, and managing the land (Neckar embedded are often substantial (Deming and Palmer and Pitt 2010). Owing to the inherently multifunctional 2005; Thering and Chanse 2011). As the geographical nature of landscapes (encompassing both natural or and organizational scope of action- oriented research ecocentric, and cultural or anthropocentric dimen- expands, the complexities of facilitating participation sions), many scholars have stressed the importance and coordinating efforts among multiple stakeholders of developing a strong cross- disciplinary approach to representing different community and societal sectors landscape research and practice—one that moves the increase; as does the potential for encountering diver- fi eld from multidisciplinary studies of the biological, gent and confl icting perceptions about alternative land physical, social, and cultural elements of landscape uses and values (Bowns 2011; Doble and King 2011; (which often proceed in parallel yet isolated fashion), McNally 2011). Furthermore, the challenges of estab- toward interdisciplinary and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land University of Wisconsin Press

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Foreword Transdisciplinary Action Research in Landscape Architecture and Planning Prospects and Challenges Daniel Stokols fundamental goal of scholarship in the fi eld of reconciling local plural design projects with the exigen- A landscape architecture is to enhance the practice cies of the regional and global contexts in which they are of designing, planning, and managing the land (Neckar embedded are often substantial (Deming and Palmer and Pitt 2010). Owing to the inherently multifunctional 2005; Thering and Chanse 2011). As the geographical nature of landscapes (encompassing both natural or and organizational scope of action- oriented research ecocentric, and cultural or anthropocentric dimen- expands, the complexities of facilitating participation sions), many scholars have stressed the importance and coordinating efforts among multiple stakeholders of developing a strong cross- disciplinary approach to representing different community and societal sectors landscape research and practice—one that moves the increase; as does the potential for encountering diver- fi eld from multidisciplinary studies of the biological, gent and confl icting perceptions about alternative land physical, social, and cultural elements of landscape uses and values (Bowns 2011; Doble and King 2011; (which often proceed in parallel yet isolated fashion), McNally 2011). Furthermore, the challenges of estab- toward interdisciplinary and

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Published: Feb 22, 2011

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